On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 2:44 PM Tom Hughes via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 19/11/2020 19:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I mean, I'm an old fogey too, but at *some* point we do have to accept
> that new things can be actively better.
True.
> I honestly can see exactly zero downsides to using a Matrix setup as
> compared to using IRC, and a giant pile of upsides, starting with "I no
> longer need to dedicate a small portion of my brain to remembering how
> my IRC bouncer setup works and maintaining it".
Well my experience when I looked at matrix desktop clients
before was that they needed more screen real estate to be
usable than IRC clients, which is certainly one downside and
probably a direct consequence of rich media support.
There's also the fact that unless I can get it to talk to all
the same chat systems I have pidgin talking to I would need to
be running two clients instead of one.
I am interested though, and did actually explore the idea of
running my own home server and what I could bridge it to (so
not that different to running my own bouncer now...) recently.
Anyway I just looked at the three clients that were suggested
earlier - all three are using Qt which makes them virtually
unusable on a wayland/gnome desktop as far as I can see as the
resize handles are so small they're impossible to use.
More amusingly one of them crashed as soon as I logged in and
a second went into a "your window is too small mode" as soon
as I resized it to match my IRC client.
The third was better, but rendered the conversation in that
left/right style of SMS clients, which is horrible for a chat
room.
No doubt there are others I can try...
The GNOME-based one is Fractal, which is not available in Fedora as of
right now. That said, the Qt based ones are in way better shape than
the GNOME one. And QGnomePlatform should make them work reasonably
well...
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